About a month back there was a news about the World’s lightest and the smallest Apple Tablet PC / UMPC. Well this was custom built one. If you’ve not heard/seen it in action here it is.
For those of you who still have some doubts on what we posted yesterday about Mac OS X on the Asus R2H, here is some more interesting stuff. Igor just sent us the video of the Asus R2H booting up the Mac OS X and how some of the applications run with the touch screen. This is awesome. For those who have been waiting for the Apple Tablet wait no more, Buy your favorite Tablet PC and install the Mac OS X.
Here is the Video of Mac OS X running on the Asus R2H.
Igor adds….
Installed Mac OS X 10.4.7 JaS Pached and in custom installation (beside standard MAC OS stuff) also selected SSE2 patch. Installation had no problems (after I created the second install DVD).. it takes some time but it is very simple. Only issue is that it is not optimized for resolution of 800×480 so you can not see back and next buttons so you must use TAB button and try if the right button is selected. OK I almost forgot. It was nor dual boot installation. Mac OS X is my only OS now on Asus R2H.
Here are some more photos of installation in progress:
Once again Hats off to our reader “Igor” for sending us the details.
Here is something for getting 800×480 on MacOSX…..Read through the whole tutorial. Email me if it works! Peace.
http://www.macvroom.com/node/36
Nice work, but the hardware really appears to be too slow.
slow
Just so you know: This device has just a 900 MHz CELERON, So hopefully with much higher configuration that we’ll see in the future things will get better.
I realize that it is a slow system at 900mhz. Something like the graphics subsystem or something else must be causing it to run so slow. My wife’s 450Mhz G3 iMac runs Tiger 10.4.8 100 times faster than that… Ok 100 is probably exaggerated but it is no where near that slow. That is unusable slow…
It actually doesn’t look that slow, the main issue, beyond non-ddr ram and the celeron, is the graphics hardware. Without acceleration for Quartz, OSX certainly run slow on any hardware.
A thought: an ultra mobile pc can play full screen movies of the OSX interface and someone can pretend to move the windows around with a stylus.
@Clafton: Yes sure and you are pretending to be the guy that ‘did not have sex with that woman…’ only ‘a’ now stands for ‘bastard’ , what a sad character you are !
Solution to the slowness (maybe):
Did you remove the TPM kext? I think it’s in /System/Library/Extensions. You wanna reboot into single user by tapping F8 while the machine starts, and editing the arguments for the OS, and adding -s to the end. Then, execute
rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/*TPM*
. This made the OS about 2847368234x more usable on a Pentium III I installed it on. HTH.
It is a JaS installaltion, TPM is already removed.
If anything, it looks as though the programs are running fine, just the quartz animations are slow. 900 mhz should run fine, maybe slow, but not unusable. i had an 800 mhz ibm celeron running JaS ok and it had the same problem. the anim,ations of the dock sucked, but everything else ran ok.
Are you running it on the battery? Try to run it with the AC adapter. On my PC notebooks, OS X runs fine with the adapter connected, but on the battery it is just as slow as on your Ultra Mobile PC.
I would love to run OS X on an acer tablet that would be something.
Is there any store online that provides an online purchase and DOWNLOAD of the Mac OS X 10.4.7 JaS ? Apple indicates that the product ships but no option to download. Thank you very much…..Aen
It took longer time to boot Mac than Vista!
I installed 10.4.4 on vmWare, and it ran slower than on that UMPC. Except for the graphics; that UMPC displays all frames but
slowly, while on vmWare it ran at normal speed but at 2 FPS.
I recently upgraded a crappy old G4’s graphics card, and it works way better!!
This tablet is not a slow computer, it just has a non-Quartz graphics card.